Select Checklist on the Body and Corporeality
(available at the Centre for Contemporary Theory)
Ackerly, Brooke A. Political Theory and Feminist Social Criticism. New York:
Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Adams, Carol. J. The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical
Theory. New York: Continuum, 2000.
Andrew, Barbara S. Keller, Jean. and Schwartzman, H. (eds). Feminist
Interventions in Ethics and Politics: Feminist Ethics and Social Theory.
Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2005.
Basu, Srimati (ed). Dowry & Inheritance. New Delhi: Women Unlimited, 2005.
Benthien, Claudia. Skin: On the Cultural Border Between Self and the World.
New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.
Bordo, Susan. Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture and the Body.
London: University of California Press, 2003.
__. The Male Body: A New Look at Men in Public and In Private.
NewYork: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999.
__. Twilight Zones: The Hidden Life of Cultural Images From Plato to
O.J. London: University of California Press, 1999.
Browne, Susan E. With The Power of Each Breath: A Disabled Women’s
Anthology. San Francisco: Cleis Press, 1985.
Butler, Judith. Antigone’s Claim: Kinship Between Life & Death. New York:
Columbia University Press, 2000.
__. Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century
France. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.
__. Undoing Gender. London: Routledge, 2004.
__. The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection. Stanford:
Stanford University Press, 1997.
Copjec, Joan. Imagine There’s No Woman: Ethics and Sublimation.
Massachusettes: MIT Press, 2002.
Doniger, Wendy. The Women Who Pretended To Be Who She Was: Myths of Self-
Imitation. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Douglas, Mary. Purity and Danger: An Analyst of Concept of Pollution and
Taboo. London: Routledge, 2002
Eisenstein, Zillah. Against Empire: Feminisms, Racism, and the West. New Delhi:
Women Unlimited, 2004.
Felman, Shoshana. The Scandal of the Speaking Body. California: Stanford
University Press, 2003.
Foster, Hal. Prosthetic Gods. London: MIT Press, 2004.
Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. New York:
Vintage Books, 1995.
__. The History of Sexuality, Vol 1 Introduction. New York:
Vintage Books, 1990.
__. The History of Sexuality, Vol 2 The Use of Pleasure. New York:
Vintage Books, 1990.
__. The History of Sexuality, Vol 3 The Care of the Self. New York:
Vintage Books, 1988.
Goldstein, Laurence (ed). Michigan Quarterly Review; A Special Issue The
Female Body Part One. Michigan: The University of Michigan, 1990.
__. Michigan Quarterly Review; A Special Issue The
Female Body Part Two. Michigan: The University of Michigan, 1991.
Guattari, Felix. Soft Subversions. New York: Semiotext (e),1996.
Gustav, Carl. Aspects of the Feminine. London: Routledge Classics, 2003.
Haase-Dubosc, Danielle et.al. (eds). French Feminism: An Indian Anthology. New
Delhi: Sage Publications, 2002.
Howson, Alexandra. The Body in Society: An Introduction. Cambridge: Polity
Press, 2003.
Jaggar M. Alison and Susan Bordo (eds). Gender/Body/Knowledge: Feminist
Reconstructions of Being and Knowing. London: Rutgers University Press, 2002.
Kirby, Vicki. Telling Flesh: The Substance of the Corporeal. London: Routledge,
1997.
Lakoff, George and Mark Johnson. Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind
and its Challenge to Western Thought. New York: Basic Books, 1999.
Laqueur, Thomas. Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003.
Laqueur, Thomas W. Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation. New
York: Zone Books, 2003.
Menon, Nivedita. Recovering Subversion: Feminist Politics Beyond the Law.
Delhi: Permanent Black, 2004.
Merck, Mandy. Naomi Segal and Elizabeth Wright (eds). Coming Out of
Feminism?. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 1998.
Miller, Jacques-Alain. On Feminine Sexuality: The Limits of Love and
Knowledge. London: W.W. Norton, 1998.
Minh-ha, Trin T. Woman Native Other. Bloomington: Indiana University Press,
1989.
Mohanty, Chandra Talpade. Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory,
Practicing Solidarity. New Delhi: Raj Press, 2003.
Moi, Toril. Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory. London: Routledge,
2002.
Murray, Stephen O. Homosexualities. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press,
2000.
Nicholson, Linda J. Feminism/Postmodernism. London: Routledge, 1989.
Nussabaum, Martha C. Women and Human Development: The Capabilities
Approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Pollock, Griselda. Vision and Difference: Feminism, Femininity and the Histories
of Art. London: Routledge Classics, 2003.
Pollock, Griselda. Differencing The Canon: Feminist Desire and the Writing of
Art’s Histories. London: Routledge, 1999.
Protevi, John. Political Physics: Deleuze, Derrida and the Body Politc. London:
The Athlone Press, 2001.
Puri, Jyoti. Woman, Body, Desire in Post-Colonial India: Narratives of Gender
and Sexuality. London: Routledge, 1999.
Rajan, Rajeswari Sunder. The Scandal of the State: Women, Law, and Citizenship
in Postcolonial India. Delhi: Permanent Black, 2003.
Ray, Sangeeta. En-Gendering India: Woman and Nation in Colonial and
Postcolonial Narratives. Durham: Duke University Press, 2000.
Rudnytsky, Peter L. and Andrew M Gordon. Psychoanalyses/Feminisms. New
York: State University of New York Press, 2000.
Salih, Sara. Judith Butler. London: Routledge, 2002.
Salih, Sara and Judith Butler (ed). The Judith Butler Reader. Oxford: Blackwell
Publishing, 2003.
Scarry, Elaine. The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World. New
York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
Sinfield, Alan. On Sexuality and Power. New York: Columbia University Press,
2004.
Tweedie, Jill. In the Name of the Love: A Study of Sexual Desire. London: Tauris
Parke, 2000.
Vicinus, Martha. Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928.
London: The University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Warhol Robyn R. and Diane Price Herndl (eds). Feminisms: An Anthology of
Literary Theory and Criticism. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1997.
Weitz Rose (ed). The Politics of Women’s Bodies: Sexuality, Appearance, and
Behavior. NewYork: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Wilson, Elizabeth A. Psychosomatic: Feminism and the Neurological Body.
London: Duke University Press, 2004.
Zizek, Slavoj. Organs without Bodies: Deleuze and Consequences. London:
Routledge,2003.
(prepared by Kanchan Sinha, Librarian, Centre for Contemporary Theory)